(And if Turkey or Ireland were in the World Cup I could have mentioned them as well)
Best Western Hotels is the largest hotel chain in the world with over 4,000 hotels across the world providing approximately 400,000 guests with a bed to sleep in every night of the year.
Unlike some other hotel brands Best Western operates as a franchise where each hotel is independently owned and operated.
It's always interesting to compare and contrast the different national web sites of global brands. Even if the different national groups maintain a level of independence they usually ensure that the global brand is consistently represented with the same "look and feel".
As you can see the Dutch, Danish, Turkish and Irish sites are all exceedingly similar to the non-joomla USA, UK and Australian sites.
The Joomla powered Best Western Hotel sites all use a custom joomla installation featuring joomfish, several yootheme modules, Simple Image Gallery PRO from joomlaworks and a single theme.
This custom joomla distribution especialy created for Best Western members has been created by Irish web development company i2iDesign.
This blog post is part of a series during the World Cup aiming to highlight the wide spread of joomla across the world.